I like Trinidade from the Guardian pick (pictured above) but when I lived in Rio the beach I most liked to go to was Prainha. More for the view from the no frills restaurant overlooking the horseshoe bay than the beach itself. You could sit up there eating fried fish and watching the surfers. Lovely….

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Oh gosh, I don’t know about the other beaches that are ‘dangeours’ but Rio has some pretty amazing beaches. Copacabana and Ipanema are amazing.
Btw do you know the guide Rio for Partiers? Has a lot of cool stuff about Rio there about the beaches and where to go around each place.

I remember a few years ago the author of Rio for Partiers wrote some basic and unoffensive information about who goes to what beaches and Cariocas got furious at his descriptions……A judge may even have banned sales for a while……Complete over reaction……Not for the first time…..Or the last…..